Roy Wood Jr. on going after Fox News during the White House Correspondents' Dinner: 'Fox needs to just sit somewhere and be quiet for a minute. That’s it. Be quiet.'
And that’s also you calling him a token, which is the sort of Easter egg inside that joke.
Yes, but we didn’t want to say that part of it out loud. We felt like, OK, if you get that part of it, great, but if you don’t, cool. It’s almost like a choose-your-own-ending joke. That was the real objective. We tried to play around with things like “Negro For Taking,” but we felt that went too far. We’d gone far enough. And it rewards the intelligence of the audience.
Interestingly enough, we haven’t seen the kind of pushback that we normally see on Fox News regarding the host’s stand-up set at the Correspondents’ Dinner. I suspect it’s because they can’t really address yourFox needs to just sit somewhere and be quiet for a minute. That’s it. Be quiet. And with the Dominion joke, the thing I was trying to infuse into the subconscious of the audience was to set up the Smartmatic one and make people aware of the Smartmatic lawsuit which is coming.
I kind of joke with people because my father did morning news, but I sat on the radio every morning and did prank calls and gave away tickets. I wasn’t nearly in his world, but once I got older and a little sharper, then I stepped into having more opinionated thoughts and perspectives.It was a motley crew of stand-ups and writers, all with some connection to that world. My head writer was Christiana Mbakwe-Medina. She’s a formerwriter. Felonious Monk, who is just a sharp fuckin’ writer.
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